Deaths in April 1998

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1998.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

April 1998

1 Theodore Bloomfield, 74, American conductor, heart attack. Gene Evans, 75, American actor, heart failure.The Associated Press (1998). "Gene Evans, Actor, 75", obituary. The New York Times, April 4, 1998. Retrieved 15 October 2019. Anne Gullestad, 72, Norwegian actress and theatre director. Janusz Nasfeter, 77, Polish film director, screenwriter and writer. Lucille Norman, 76, American actress, mezzo-soprano and radio personality. Robert Ogle, 69, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and politician. Igor Ostashov, 60, Soviet Russian Olympic speed skater (1964). Dave Smith, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Johnny Stevenson, 84, American basketball player. Mary Wynne Warner, 65, Welsh mathematician. Rozz Williams, 34, American singer, poet and artist, suicide by hanging.

2 Joan Austin, 95, British tennis player. Dai Davies, 88, Welsh trade unionist. Ronnie Dix, 85, English football player. Hans Eberle, 72, German football player and Olympian (1952). Jock Gaynor, 68, American television actor and producer. Eberhard Rees, 89, German-American rocketry pioneer and NASA executive. Jackie Sardou, 78, French actress. Frank Steen, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers). Alf Westman, 77, Swedish Olympic hurdler (1948).

3 Mary Cartwright, 97, British mathematician. Caroline Fletcher, 91, American Olympic diver (1924). Elmer Iseler, 70, Canadian choir conductor and choral editor. Givi Kartozia, 69, Georgian middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion (1956, 1960). Charles Lang, 96, American cinematographer (Some Like It Hot, A Farewell to Arms, Sabrina), Oscar winner (1934), pneumonia. Harkisan Mehta, 69, Indian author and journalist, heart attack. Rolf Olsen, 78, Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director, cancer. Rob Pilatus, 33, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli), accidental overdose. Herbert B. Powell, 94, United States Army general and diplomat. Jean-Pierre Roche, 73, Swiss Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1952). Josef Staudinger, 91, Austrian diver and Olympian (1928, 1932). John W. Sweeterman, 91, American newspaperman. Alvin Tyler, 72, American R&B and jazz musician."Alvin 'Red' Tyler", rockabilly.nl, Retrieved 15 October 2019 Wolf Vostell, 65, German painter and sculptor.

4 Harry Wesley Bass Jr., 71, American businessman, coin collector and philanthropist. George Berry, 84, Australian politician.George William Berry – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 15 October 2019. Kate Bosse-Griffiths, 87, German-British egyptologist. Marshall Fredericks, 90, American sculptor. Kay Hughes, 84, American actress. Pierre Lantier, 87, French composer and pianist. Predrag Milinković, 64, Serbian actor. Ian Percival, 76, British politician. Ganesh Prasad Rijal, 77, Nepali politician, heart attack. Ángel Schandlein, 67, Argentine footballer.

5 Nick Forkovitch, 79, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Charles Frank, 87, British theoretical physicist. Mick Miller, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist and politician, heart seizure.Natasha Case et al (1998) "Recent Happenings" Aboriginal Law Bulletin 50, Retrieved 15 October 2019 Elizabeth Mitchell, 79, New Zealand fencer. Cozy Powell, 50, English rock drummer (Rainbow, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, Black Sabbath), traffic collision.

6 Edgar Ablowich, 84, American athlete and Olympian (1932). Reuben Berry, 63, American gridiron football coach. Sam Chaffey, 63, New Zealand Olympic alpine skier (1960). Rudy Dhaenens, 36, Belgian road bicycle racer, traffic collision. Helen Craig McCullough, 80, American academic, translator and japanologist. Heinz Neuhaus, 71, German boxer and heavyweight champion. Antonio Randi, 77, Italian Olympic wrestler (1952). Dewey Soriano, 78, American baseball executive. Wendy O. Williams, 48, American singer, songwriter, and actress, suicide by gunshot. John Wyatt, 63, American baseball player, heart attack. Tammy Wynette, 55, American country music singer-songwriter, heart arrhythmia, heart attack.

7 Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari, 79, Pakistani Islamic scholar. Modesta Bor, 71, Venezuelan composer. Luis Díez del Corral, 86, Spanish jurist, writer and political scientist. Vitaly Galkov, 58, Soviet and Russian sprint canoer and Olympian (1968). Sirous Ghayeghran, 36, Iranian football player, traffic collision. John Kasper, 69, American Ku Klux Klan member and segregationist, boating accident. Ronald William John Keay, 77, British botanist, cancer. Ibrahim Khalil, 88-89, Egyptian Olympic diver (1936). John Larking, 76, English cricketer. Pancho Magalona, 76, Filipino actor, emphysema. Nick Auf der Maur, 55, Canadian journalist and politician, esophageal cancer. James McIntosh Patrick, 91, Scottish painter. Paul Sarringhaus, 77, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions). Alex Schomburg, 92, Puerto Rican comic-book artist and painter. Carlos Vega, 41, Cuban-American session drummer, suicide by gunshot. S. V. Venkatraman, 86, Indian actor, singer and music director.

8 Anatole Dauman, 73, French film producer. Charlie Drinkwater, 83, English football player and manager. Lee Elias, 77, British-American comics artist. Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry, 91, American writer and Baháʼí Faith convert.Passing of Florence Mayberry, Former Counselor and Member of the International Teaching Center, Messages from the Universal House of Justice: 1986-2001, by Universal House of Justice, Wilmette, IL: Baháʼí Publishing Trust, 2009, Retrieved 18 October 2019 René Pellos, 98, French artist, cartoonist, writer, and Olympian (1928). Kurt Weinreich, 89, German football manager.

9 Tom Cora, 44, American cellist and composer, melanoma. Mihai Grecu, 81, Moldovan painter. Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, 89, Indian writer. Lü Shuxiang, 93, Chinese linguist, lexicographer and educator. Ronald Vernon Southcott, 79, Australian medical zoologist. Aleksey Spiridonov, 46, Soviet athlete and Olympic medalist (1976). John Tate, 43, American heavyweight boxer and Olympian (1976), traffic collision. David Vigor, 58, Australian politician, heart attack.

10 Archbishop Serafim of Athens, 84, Greek archbishop. Alan Burgess, 83, English RAF pilot and author.Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1998, Harris M. Lentz, III, McFarland & Co., 1999. Jean Chapot, 67, French screenwriter and film director. Campos de Carvalho, 81, Brazilian writer. Dieter Erler, 58, German footballer. Basil James, 77, American jockey. Charles Kessler, 87, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1936). Zezé Moreira, 90, Brazilian footballer and coach. Nguyen Co Thach, 76, Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician. Horst Scheeser, 85, Romanian Olympic alpine skier (1936).

11 Lillian Briggs, 65, American rock 'n roll musician, lung cancer. Pierre Cottier, 89, Swiss Olympic weightlifter (1936). Francis Durbridge, 85, English playwright and author. Tex Geddes, 78, Scottish author and adventurer. Rodney Harvey, 30, American actor, model and dancer, drug overdose. Leland Clure Morton, 82, American district judge (United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee). Kristaq Rama, 66, Albanian sculptor, art educator and politician. Ivan Tcherepnin, 55, French-American composer. Doris Tetzlaff, 77, American baseball player. Rover Thomas, 72, Aboriginal Australian artist.

12 Xin Fengxia, Chinese pingju opera performer, cerebral hemorrhage. Robert Ford, 83, Canadian poet and diplomat. Dorothea Jameson, 77, American cognitive psychologist, lung cancer. Frederick Lenz, 48, American businessman and spiritual teacher, suicide by drowning. Felicitas Mendez, Puerto Rican-American civil right activist, heart failure. Bruno Rodzik, 62, French football player. Charles Sibley, 80, American ornithologist and molecular biologist. Marvin Wolfgang, 73, American sociologist and criminologist.

13 Alec Albiston, 80, Australian rules footballer and coach. Jack Bolling, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Brooklyn Dodgers). Randy Brown, 54, American baseball player (California Angels). Patrick de Gayardon, 38, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer, skydiving accident. Nyta Dover, 70, Swiss actress. David Foster, 43, Irish equestrian and Olympian (1984, 1988, 1996). Bahi Ladgham, 85, Tunisian politician and Prime minister. Ian MacGregor, 85, Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist. Pat Rainey, 72, American singer and actress.Blues: A Regional Experience, By Bob L. Eagle, Eric S. LeBlanc - Page 258 New England Glaciated Coast (Northeastern Coastal Zone)-Massachusetts Jack Vard, 71, Irish wrestler and Olympian (1952).

14 Roberts Bluķis, 85, Latvian basketball, ice hockey player, and Olympian (1936). Jake Colhouer, 76, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals, New York Giants). Brian Crago, 71, Australian Olympic equestrian (1956, 1960). Weldon Humble, 76, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, Dallas Texans). Harry Lee, 90, British tennis player. Dorothy Squires, 83, Welsh singer, lung cancer. Maurice Stans, 90, American civil servant and politician, congestive heart failure.

15 William Congdon, 86, American painter. Pompeo D'Ambrosio, 81, Italian-Venezuelan businessman. Kenny Duckett, 38, American football player (New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys), renal failure. William K. Jones, 81, United States Marine Corps lieutenant general. Rose Maddox, 72, American country singer-songwriter. Pol Pot, 72, Cambodian politician. General secretary of the CPK Kayo Wnorowski, 76, American basketball player.

16 Kazimieras Antanavičius, 60, Lithuanian economist and politician. Djibo Bakary, 76, Nigerian nationalist and politician. Alberto Calderón, 77, Argentinian mathematician. Fernande Caroen, 77, Belgian freestyle swimmer and Olympian (1948). Leif Dahlgren, 92, Swedish athlete and Olympian (1936). Fred Davis, 84, English snooker and billiards player. Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest living person at the time of her death. Ronald Millar, 78, English actor, scriptwriter, and dramatist. Esko Salminen, 77, Finnish Olympic field hockey player (1952).

17 Michael Agbamuche, 77, Nigerian Attorney General and politician. Alberto Bovone, 75, Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. Frances Clark, 93, American pianist, pedagogue, and academic. Geraldo de Barros, 75, Brazilian painter and photographer. Linda McCartney, 56, American musician, photographer and animal rights activist, breast cancer. William C. Scott, 76, Canadian politician.

18 Stoffel Botha, 69, South African politician, heart attack. Ferenc Deák, 76, Hungarian football player. William Edmondson, 91, American sound engineer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Twilight Zone, Vanishing Point). Nelson Gonçalves, 78, Brazilian singer and songwriter, heart attack. Johan Richter, 73, Danish architect and engineer. Terry Sanford, 80, American university administrator and politician, esophageal cancer. Linda Schele, 55, American Mesoamerican archaeologist, pancreatic cancer. Walter Sessi, 79, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).

19 Gardner Dickinson, 70, American golfer. J.C. Harrington, 96, American historical archaeologist. Denis Howell, Baron Howell, 74, British politician. Octavio Paz, 84, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate, cancer. Vladimir Sokolov, 70, Russian scientist. Liam Sullivan, 74, American actor and singer, heart attack.LA Times obituary: "Liam Sullivan; Actor Best Known for Many TV Roles", 25 April 1998. Retrieved 19 October 2019

20 Severo Cominelli, 82, Italian football player. Trevor Huddleston, 84, English Anglican bishop.